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December 3, 2006 - 6:21 am The avalanche danger is mostly LOW today with a few isolated pockets of MODERATE in steep, drifted, rocky north through east facing slopes. This would be for less than 5% of the mentioned terrain.
Drew Hardesty
Links: Avalanche List Photos Profile List Weather Links Encyclopedia 24 Hrs It’s my opinion that yesterday's explosive induced activity is the exception rather than the rule for general conditions in the backcountry and we’ll just likely see increased sluffing until the next wind or snow event. The isolated wind drifts seem to be glued in quite nicely and the weak faceted snow at the mid, low and red-light districts of the snowpack seem to lack enough of a load to be active. 8 Hrs With gradual warming and clear skies, watch for the southerly aspects to start producing wet loose snow avalanches with daytime heating over the next few days.
Except for some minor sluffing in the weakening surface snow, the only avalanche we heard about was an explosive triggered avalanche to the ground in upper Big Cottonwood Canyon. The 2-3’ deep slide pulled out in upper elevation north facing terrain and propagated out 150’. Under clear skies, temperatures remain in the single digits at most mountain locations with temps below zero in the cold drainages and basins. Winds remain northwesterly and less than 15mph. Riding conditions remain excellent where the coverage is good, but some of the steep southerly aspects will have a thin zipper crust this morning.
High pressure, accompanied by a warming trend, will generally dominate our weather pattern for the upcoming week. The winds will remain out of the west and northwest at less then 15mph while 8000’ and 10,000’ temps rise to 30 and 23 degrees, respectively.
Stay up-to-date with our noon mountain weather forecast. Listen to the advisory. Try our new streaming audio or podcasts
Our new, state wide tollfree hotline is 1-888-999-4019.(For early morning detailed avalanche activity report hit option 8)For a list of avalanche classes, click HERETo sign up for automated e-mails of our graphical advisory click HERE
Our partners, the FUAC, will hold their next fundraiser at Brewvies on Dec 7th. There will be two showings of TGR’s new film, “The Anomaly”, at 7pm and 9pm. Advance tickets are available.
We appreciate any snowpack and avalanche observations you have, so please let us know by calling (801) 524-5304 or 1-800-662-4140, email uac@avalanche.org (uac@avalanche.org) or fax 801-524-6301.
The information in this advisory is from the U.S. Forest Service, which is solely responsible for its content. This advisory describes general avalanche conditions and local variations always occur.
I will update this advisory by 7:30 on Monday morning and thanks for calling.
This advisory provided by the Wasatch Cache National Forest, in partnership with:
Utah Division of State Parks and Recreation, The Friends of the Utah Avalanche Center, Utah Department of Emergency Services and Homeland Security and Salt Lake County
DISCLAIMER: Above is information on each factor affecting todays' danger rating. All factors must be considered to develop a backcountry travel plan that will reduce your risk.
The post was created using an automated process maintained by First Tracks! Online.
Drew Hardesty
Links: Avalanche List Photos Profile List Weather Links Encyclopedia 24 Hrs It’s my opinion that yesterday's explosive induced activity is the exception rather than the rule for general conditions in the backcountry and we’ll just likely see increased sluffing until the next wind or snow event. The isolated wind drifts seem to be glued in quite nicely and the weak faceted snow at the mid, low and red-light districts of the snowpack seem to lack enough of a load to be active. 8 Hrs With gradual warming and clear skies, watch for the southerly aspects to start producing wet loose snow avalanches with daytime heating over the next few days.
Except for some minor sluffing in the weakening surface snow, the only avalanche we heard about was an explosive triggered avalanche to the ground in upper Big Cottonwood Canyon. The 2-3’ deep slide pulled out in upper elevation north facing terrain and propagated out 150’. Under clear skies, temperatures remain in the single digits at most mountain locations with temps below zero in the cold drainages and basins. Winds remain northwesterly and less than 15mph. Riding conditions remain excellent where the coverage is good, but some of the steep southerly aspects will have a thin zipper crust this morning.
High pressure, accompanied by a warming trend, will generally dominate our weather pattern for the upcoming week. The winds will remain out of the west and northwest at less then 15mph while 8000’ and 10,000’ temps rise to 30 and 23 degrees, respectively.
Stay up-to-date with our noon mountain weather forecast. Listen to the advisory. Try our new streaming audio or podcasts
Our new, state wide tollfree hotline is 1-888-999-4019.(For early morning detailed avalanche activity report hit option 8)For a list of avalanche classes, click HERETo sign up for automated e-mails of our graphical advisory click HERE
Our partners, the FUAC, will hold their next fundraiser at Brewvies on Dec 7th. There will be two showings of TGR’s new film, “The Anomaly”, at 7pm and 9pm. Advance tickets are available.
We appreciate any snowpack and avalanche observations you have, so please let us know by calling (801) 524-5304 or 1-800-662-4140, email uac@avalanche.org (uac@avalanche.org) or fax 801-524-6301.
The information in this advisory is from the U.S. Forest Service, which is solely responsible for its content. This advisory describes general avalanche conditions and local variations always occur.
I will update this advisory by 7:30 on Monday morning and thanks for calling.
This advisory provided by the Wasatch Cache National Forest, in partnership with:
Utah Division of State Parks and Recreation, The Friends of the Utah Avalanche Center, Utah Department of Emergency Services and Homeland Security and Salt Lake County
DISCLAIMER: Above is information on each factor affecting todays' danger rating. All factors must be considered to develop a backcountry travel plan that will reduce your risk.
The post was created using an automated process maintained by First Tracks! Online.